Hudson Wants To Know Which Virtual Console Games You Want

A few e-mails got sent over to us (thanks everyone!!) about Hudson droppingVirtual Console support in North America to focus on WiiWare. Don’t worry they aren’t giving up on releasing classics! We asked Mike Pepe, Director of Marketing, about the rumor. Here’s what he had to say:

“Although WiiWare has been very successful for Hudson we have every intention to continue supporting Virtual Console. We are very pleased with the service and are happy to make available products that have been fan favorites in the past. Creating new games on WiiWare and releasing past ones on VC are two separate initiatives that we intend to support.”

Pepe also asked which Hudson games we would like to see on the Virtual Console and offered to pass over the favorites to the development teams in Japan. Post suggestions in the comments! We’re going to compile a list and send it to Hudson next week.

I guess I’ll start with Faxanadu, but that’s probably a licensing pipe dream so I’ll go with the unreleased Adventure Island 4.

And yes, I would also like to see Bomberman 64 as well. Many have expressed their desire to see it appear on the VC, also.

KnucklesSonic8

Please recommend the following titles:
Mario Party 2 and 3!!!! Please! I know that would mean MP1 would have to come first but please. I’ve been waiting so long. Both are must-buys for me.

I know that would require joint-cooperation with Nintendo but please recommend it. Trust me when I say I’m not the only one. Tons of people want them to appear on the VC, including people I know personally.

And yes, many have expressed their desire to see Bomberman 64 on the VC as well. I’d definitely give it a try myself.

Kaoro

Hah, Mario Party on VC? Not a chance. I think they were great, but If Nintendo can sell the same rehashed Mario Parties with N64 graphics for $50, why would they let you get it on the VC?

I kid… well, there is a bit of truth in that.

Tossing my vote in for Bomberman 64

KnucklesSonic8

At first I thought you were criticizing the new NPC/Play on Wii series Nintendo has initiated and somehow applied it to Mario Party but I can see where you’re coming from.

For starters, N64 graphics? Aren’t you being a bit cynical there?

Why would they let it come on the VC? Dumb question really. Like I said, they’d get a lot of sales from people. Many have said that Mario Party 3 is the best in series but I have no comment because despite being a huge Mario Party fan, I never played MP3 when I was younger and Mario Party 2, I only played because I borrowed it from a friend from my past. MP2 holds some sentimental value for me as it taps into my memory database as well. lol.

Anyway, it’s possible so don’t rule it out.

Please recommend Mario Party 2 and 3. Like I said, I know that that would mean MP1 has to come out first but I’m highlighting the other two because I wouldn’t purchase MP1 since I still have it and it works perfectly fine and MP2 and MP3 are much better from what I remember as a kid.

I’m trying to think of what other titles they could bring to the VC also…

Kaoro

Yeah I was kidding about the “not a chance” thing. Lately it just feels like they’re not even trying with the MP games. I was being cynical, but even the latest entry in the series felt a little dated to me.

That said I would like to see the older Mario Parties up there too.

daizyujin

Until they add in online, I will remain cynical. The game practically begs for it. It’s ommision in 8 is inexcusable.

KnucklesSonic8

Tell me about it. Like I said in my other comment, with how much experience they have no with online play, especially on WiiWare, *now* you can say it’s inexcusable.

MPDS especially could’ve used online.

KnucklesSonic8

lol. I dunno. MP games have such a HUGE mix of opinions, as I’m sure you’ve gleaned for yourself. Take MP8 for example. While I thought the boards were (for the most part….) well done, I also thought the mini-games could’ve been more innovative and some of the concepts weren’t as creative as some of the other great mini-games I’ve seen in the past. Guess they’re running out of ideas? lol. I dunno. It’s a touchy subject as I’m sure you’ll agree. Like when you ask someone which was their favourite Mario Party for board and which one was their favourite for mini-games, it’s very debatable, wouldn’t you say?

All things considered, this is why I’m looking ahead to the future with MP9 and the eventual MP10 (let’s hope for an Anniversary edition) and with all the experience they have now with Online Play, especially on WiiWare, NOT having Online Play in a future entry would be inexcusable, even if it just was mini-games.

That’s why MP2 and MP3 would do so well since they have a ton of nostalgic value when you consider how far the series has come!

Others if they can
EVERY SINGLE Working Designs game if the can:
Cotton
Cosmic Fantasy II
Exile I and II
Parodius
Saphire (if they can put it on PSP in Jappan then why not on the VC)
RAYXANBER III
Springgan Mk 2

Shoot there are so many!!!!

Please try and get this list to them, the Tg-16 is my Number 1 reason for owning a Wii in truth. Shoot Hudson could release some sort of Classics system that just plays old TG games and I would buy it!

ThanX

EvilAkito

Rondo of Blood is the only game on Hudson’s 16-bit era console that I care about at this point.

Jself

I’d really enjoy Dungeon Explorer 2. It costs a fortune in its physical form, so not many people have actually played it, and the first one was generally well received when it hit the virtual console.

Necroth

Adventure Island IV
Super Adventure Island II

If they still decide which TG-16 games show up, then I would like them to bring:
Cotton
Exile I & II
Cadash PCE
Magical Chase
Legendary Axe
Neo Nectaris
Parasol Stars

Zefiro Torna

I also cast my demand for Bomberman 64, I’d certainly forgive it if the game can not be delivered with controller pak support (for the customizable bombers in multi-player mode) as the single-player adventure alone is worth the price, let alone the unique multi-player maps.

There’s also the Panic Bomber games which I’d like to see, be it the SFC entry or the Neo Geo one or the PC-Engine game which is already on the Japanese Virtual Console. Speaking of PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16 games…

There’s a number of PC-Engine games on the Japanese VC service by other publishers that would be awesome to see here, many of which can be released here as they are due to being light on text (aren’t arcade style games wonderful in that regard?). I can see that others here certainly hope that Hudson can work with others such as Konami, Taito, Namco, and the rest to bring over those readily available games. There’s titles that Gradius II has given me hope of seeing here such as: [from Konami] Gradius (despite the pretty swell NES version also on the VC), Detana!! Twinbee, Salamander, Dracula X, [from Taito] Darius Plus/Super Darius, the aforementioned Parasol Stars (use the Japanese version if Working Designs translation can not be obtained), etc.

fallen

I cast a vote for anything that I can’t emulate with ease on my computer. To me, being realistic, that kind of game is the only value the Virtual Console has to me. I’ve always wanted to tell companies that.

By that logic, PC-CD games by the metric ton would assuredly lead them to some of my money.

Joggington

1. Faxanadu
2. Xexyz

The end.

http://tinycartridge.com jcfletcher

Adventure Island 4, Ai Cho Aniki, and the Japanese Kato-chan and Ken-chan!

rp

Give us the best PC Engine import games! Dracula X, Parodius, etc.

rp

Also, I don’t care if the whole game is in Japanese, even if it’s an RPG. I can read a faq on the internet or just figure it out. I just want to play something old school that I’ve never seen before that is interesting. Give us the best games from Japan!

I’d kill to see the rest of the Super Bomberman series over here. I mean, geez, translate a couple menus here and there, and 3, 4, and 5 are ready to rock. Maybe that Bomberman B-Daman game that was on Super Famicom, as well? That’s probably too obscure and too big of a licensing mess, though.

Hudson has no real control over anything but their PCE/Turbo catalogs iirc… stuff like Hagane, Adventure Island IV or Bomberman 64 would be under Nintendo’s purview. On Virtual Console, it’s up to the platform holder (ie: Nintendo, Sega, Hudson, D4 or Commodore) to license 3rd party wares, then they do the emulation, tweaking and manuals themselves (or outsource, like M2 handing SMS, Genesis and MSX for Sega and D4 respectively).

That said, Ys III, Magical Chase and Dracula X plz!

Doug

Everybody on this board went so hardcore. I just want them to continue the Adventure Island series, especially the NES versions. The sequels went a different direction than the 2 that are on the VC now:

Hudson Please give us Dracula X: Rondo of Blood!!!
I would also like to try 1941, Cadash, Deep Blue, Legendary Axe, Keith Courage, Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth,Ghost Manor, and Mario Party would be great

Also Final Lap Twin and Battle Royal

Loser

I would love it if you put out Mario Party. Especially 2. However it is Nintendo’s series but it should be okay with them.

Joey

All I want is Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom. It’s an awesome point and click adventure in the same style as Shadowgate. And also bring Dracula X. Those two games alone would make me very happy.

evildevil

It just occured to me: Wasnt Hudson the ones who made one of my favourite under-appreciated NES games?

I’d love to see Felix The Cat for the NES. Though, I’m sure character rights and such would make it unlikely to ever happen.

John

However, much I want to see Mario Part or Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth

Rondo of Blood has to get my vote, I don’t know whether its Hudson or Konami’s call though

wegweg

for the love of an god, give us RONDO OF BLOOD!!!!

Kultist

I’ll just ask for one (ok maybe two)

1. Faxanadu
2. Ys games. All of them.

Please Hudson, bring back some fond memories, revive the World Tree :)

These are just the games that 1) either already have translations or don’t need them, and 2) I feel highly, highly confident that I would buy. For point 1, I get the feeling that I’d love Popful Mail to death from looking at it, but it’s probably too dialogue-heavy to put up. :( Same with Ys IV. For point 2, there are others I’d also like to see and would definitely consider buying, such as the other Adventure Island games, Ys III, or Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth, but when it comes down to the wire Hudson probably wants to know what I’d certainly pay for.

Those are only the games that 1) either already have a translation or don’t look like they depend on understanding the text (going by what I can see on YouTube), and 2) I feel highly confident I would buy.

For point 1, I get the feeling that I’d love Popful Mail to death from looking at it, but it seems too dialogue-heavy to release to the widespread English-speaking audience as it is. :( Same with Ys IV. And for point 2, there are some other games I’d like to see and would consider buying, like the other Adventure Island games, Ys III, and Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth, but when it comes down to the wire Hudson probably wants to know what I would absolutely buy, and those are the games at the top of my comment :P

LordGeo

Dracula X: Rondo of Blood and Ys III are definites, Dai Makaimura/Ghouls & Ghosts for the SuperGrafx would be cool since it’s such an obscure port, and Darius Plus since Darius games are so much fun!

That videogame guy

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring Bomberman64 and the Mario Partys! Honestly Hudson makes great games so they ALL should make it to the VC sooner or later( W/Bomberman64 and the MPs sooner since the VC is in DIRE need of more N64 game support

Jason

As many have said before I would be simply thrilled to have Dracula X Rondo of blood.
It is probably my most wanted game ever.
Some more Ys games would be nice also. Pretty please Hudson?

Banjo2553

Mario Party 1, 2, and 3, and Mario Tennis. All for the N64. That’s all I would want, really.

Andrew Darby

Rondo of Blood!
Adventure Island IV

Sheldon

Keith Courage, Mario Party 1, 2 and 3, Adventure island 4, Rondo of Blood, Bomberman 64, Ys III, The Supergraphx version of Ghouls and Ghosts, and all of the Super Bomberman games.

I wish they would put the Turbo Graphics Version of Pac-Land up, not sure if this goes under Hudson, but would still be great. Also Legendary Axe and the entire Advenuter Island series would be great to see.

KnucklesSonic8

I hope Hudson acknowledges how many people want Mario Party! To see them released would please me to no end!

Hey Hudson. I want Rondo of Blood from you guys, and Herzog Zwei from whoever is currently responsible for it not currently being on the Virtual Console. That’s pretty much it, and I’ll be very happy with the Virtual Console. :)

Since you happen to be responsible for one of those two games, why not give us what we’ve been kicking and screaming about since it was released in Japan nearly an entire year ago, huh? -_^

Fan

Dungeon Explorer II for the TG-16CD

Nick

Mario Party 1,2,&3 especially 3…but all of them are great. Of Hudson will do the world a favor by releasing them, I’d be unbelevable happy and actually if they do get released, every n64 game I owned would be on the virtual console except pokemon stadium 1&2, super smash bros, and DK64 but those aren’t up to Hudson so please Hudson release these games.

Clint

I would like to see: Castlevania Dracula X rondo of Blood, Bomberman 64, Bomberman Hero, and the other Adventure Island games on NES.

john

Castlevania; Rondo of Blood wil make you a lot of money. You should release it in the US.

AwesomeDood

TEMPO 32x

The Jack Of Hearts

All of these games I would like to request to be released on the VC. :)

|sf>I appreciate the large number of games that Hudson has given us, especially the five-player games. As far as a list of interests, here are my suggestions in order of preference. Some of them have already been mentioned by others, but I’ll repeat them for good measure.

Nintendo just needs to get out the Saturn VC so we can get Bomberman Saturn!

Diel

Swat Kats!!!

and bomberman 64 of course

BJ Wanlund

Hudson –

I appreciate your efforts to handle the VC properly, but really, there’s only 2 games I want: Mario Party 2 & Mario Party 3!! I know, but I played those games FANATICALLY, and then I saw what you had done to Mario Party 4 and I knew these two fantastic games were it for me in that series. The isometric perspective was PERFECT for the game, which was basically a video game masquerading as a board game.

Here’s hoping it comes to VC sooner rather than later. Oh, and would you mind please supporting the Cube controller with these releases? Thanks!

Sincerely,

BJ Wanlund

Doug

Please, guys, I am anxious for more games Turbografx games. I never had the system when I was a kid, but I’m hooked on the VC titles now! Legendary Axe I and II, Ghost Manor, Night Creatures… bring them on!

Ryan

Just Dungeon Explorer II.

Mega Volt

For TG-16

Parasol Stars
Keith Courage
Cotton
Legendary Axe
Side Arms

Giorgio

Not for a minute did I think of offending anyone, but, to me, Hudson should be a bit ashamed of not releasing a mega hit like Final Match Tennis (probably the best tennis ever) on Virtual Console. Please, remedy this incomprehensible lacking!

Giorgio

Not for a minute did I think of offending anyone, but, to me, Hudson should be a bit ashamed of not releasing a mega hit like Final Match Tennis (probably the best tennis ever) on Virtual Console. Please, remedy this incomprehensible lacking!

Bronze

-Bomberman 64
-Bomberman 64 The Second Attack
-Bomberman Hero

debbie nevin

I am 58 yrs. old and my favorite game ever and yes I still play it is Adventure Island Thanks Hudson

Pito2394

I would like to request:

Bomberman 64: The Second Attack

I would just love that game to be in VC.

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